Permitting immoral behaviour: A generalized compensation belief hypothesis.
When are we more likely to permit immoral behaviours? The current research examined a generalized compensation belief hypothesis that individuals, as observers, would morally tolerate and accept someone paying forward unfair treatment to an innocent person as a means to compensate for the perpetrato...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Psychology Vol. 114; no. 1; pp. 21 - 39 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Feb2023
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